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World's first carbon neutral city

Source: BBC,Environmental Health News, Date: March , 2010

The world's first zero-carbon city is being built in Abu Dhabi and
is designed to be not only free of cars and skyscrapers but also
powered by the sun.

The oil-rich United Arab
Emirates is the last place you would expect to learn lessons on
low-carbon living, but the emerging eco-city of Masdar could teach the
world.

The genius of Masdar -
if it works - will be combining 21st Century engineering with
traditional desert architecture to deliver zero-carbon comfort. And it
is being built now.

Masdar will be home to about 50,000 people, at least 1,000 businesses and a university.

It
is being designed by British architects Foster and Partners, but it is
the ruler of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who is
paying for it. And it will cost between £10bn ($15bn) and £20bn
($30bn).